Garment-supporter.



No. 719,369. v PATENTED JAN. 27, 1903.

w. s. 'RADNEDGE.

GARMENT SUPPORTER- APPLICATION FILED use. 16, 190 1.

VILLIAM SYDNEY RADNEDGE, OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,369, dated January 27, 1903.

Application filed December 16, 1901. Serial No. 86,135. (No model.)

To aIZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SYDNEY RAD- NEDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McOracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garmentsupporters.

The object of the invention is to present a simple, durable, cheap, and readily-applied device of the character specified, which in use will be thoroughly effective for supporting an undergarment against dropping and which is adapted to be applied to the garment equally as well after the garment has been made up as when it is being constructed.

With these and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a garment-supporter, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, there is illustrated a form of embodiment of my invention applied to a garment in two different positions, it being understood that the elements therein exhibited may be varied or changed as to shape, proportion,

and exact manner of assemblage without departing from the scope of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective of the supporter detached from a garment. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation showing the device applied to the garment. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail View showing the manner in which the device is applied to a garment that has already been made up. Fig. f is a similar view showing the manner in which the device is associated with a garment while being made up.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the supporter, comprising a body-plate 2, a trousers-waistband-engaging hook 3, and a drawers-loop-engaging hook 4. The hook 3 is provided with a slot or opening 5, by which it may be slipped over the button of a pair of trousers after the same has been made up, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or be sewed between the waistband and the lining and be held in place by the threads used for securing the button 6 in position, as shown in Fig. 4. The drawers-loop-engaging hook 4 is provided at its bend with a recess 7 to lighten the structure and also to permit of ready in sertion of the needle for sewing the device in place on the Waistband, this being effected by disposing the crest of the said recess above the lower terminal of the slot 5. Whether held in position as by being sewed on the waistband, as shown in Fig. 4, or slipped over the button 6, as shown in Fig. 3, the supporter will at all times be held positively associated with the trousers and in position to be engaged by the loops of the drawersband. The supporter is to be struck up from any suitable metal, preferably one of resilient character, such as sheet-brass, and will be sold as an article of manufacture, either separately or already applied to a pair of trousers.

It will be observed by reference to Figs. 1

and 2 that the opening 5 terminates in a point,

the object of this arrangement being to preclude the possibility of disconnection of the supporter from the suspenders button, as when sitting down or leaning over, as such movements will operate to draw the waistband-engaging hook upward, and thus force the threads of the button or the shank thereof into the narrow end of the opening.

In use the supporter will be found thoroughly efficient for the purpose designed, and being small and light will not present an obstruction that will prove unsightly, and thus objectionable when applied 'to a garment.

It is to be understood, of course, that if preferred the drawers-loop-engaging book may be shaped similarly to the waistband-engaging hook, and as this will be perfectly obvious detailed illustration thereof is deemed unnecessary.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A garment-supporter comprising a sheetmetal body-plate, a waistband-engaging hook disposed at one terminal of the plate and provided with a slot having its greatest width toward the top and thence converging down- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ward to a point, and a drawers-loop-engagmy own I have hereto affixed my signature in ing hook disposed at the other terminal of the plate and provided at its bend with a. recess the presence of two Witnesses. the crest of which is disposed above the lower end of the said slot, all of the parts being disposed in parallelism, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM SYDNEY RADNEDGE. Witnesses:

WILLIAM J. RADNEDGE, .J. E. FOREMAN. 

